![]() ![]() ![]() “When I first saw the video, I was not surprised,” Justice! Somerville-Adair, FCLC ’21, said. Fear and violence that, always present, seemed to feel bolder and more public in a country on lockdown. The news of Floyd’s death came for many as another heartbreaking casualty in a spring season tense with public instances of white Americans expressing unwarranted fear and deadly violence toward Black people. Within hours, Black and brown students who were all too familiar with the feelings of fear and anguish that such headlines bring took to social media to post their feelings. Students of Fordham University, first learning through viral posts, direct messages and FaceTime, heard the news about George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. “Why do we have to beg for people to value us as human beings?” ![]() “I am angry, I am frustrated, I am exhausted having to beg for my people to live,” Diane Greg-Uanseru, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’21, wrote in an Instagram post on May 28. ![]()
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